Broom and the like



W. E. KILLINGER AND F. S. STEWART.

' BROOM AND THE LIKE.

Patented Dec.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. KILLING-ER AND FRANCIS S. STEWART, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

BROOM AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

Application filed August 10, 1920. Serial No. 402,667.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. KIL- LINGER and FRANCIS S. STEWART, citizens of the United States, residing at Oklahoma city, in the county of Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in Brooms and the like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The object of our invention is to reduce the cost of brooms, whisk brooms, brushes, etc., which comprise bundles or bunches of broom corn, hair, or the like, and a handle or holder, and this we do by making it unnecessary to throw away the handle or holder when the brushing or sweeping members wear out, it being possible with our invention to use the same handle or holder over and over again.

To illustrate our invention, we show it in the drawings as embodied in a floor-sweep ing broom, but it is to be understood that this is merely one application of our invention for it is applicable to other brush or broom-like appliances.

In the drawings;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a floor broom constructed in accordance with our invention, parts being broken away,

Fig. 2 is a vertical section;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 8- ---3, of Fig. 2, V

Fig. 4c is a perspective view of the filler and locking device, separate from the case.

Referring to the broom shown in the drawings, the broom corn or straw, 10, at one end is bound by a metal strip, 11, that forms in effect, a thin walled oblong metal casing, with fiat sides and narrow end walls, and such casing tapers to its upper or outer end, and, with the straw forms what we call the filler. This metal-wrapped end of the broom head is inserted in a correspondingly shaped cavity in a shell, or case, 12, of metal or other material, which has at one end, at the transverse center, a socket, 13, to receive the reduced end of the stick or handle, 14:. The case is closed on all sides except the bottom where the filler is inserted endwise.

In each side edge of the filler is a vertical groove, 15, that reaches from the top to a point below the strip or band, 11, and seated within each groove is astraight bar or leg, 16, that is plvoted at its upper end to a cross-bar, 17, in the case above the filler, and at its lower end has a foot, 18, that passes beneath the bottom edge of the band, 11. At its transverse center, the crossbar, 17, has a vertical shank that is bifurcated to form two upwardly extending legs, 19, that, respectively, enter and slidingly fit diametrically opposite slots between the reduced portion of the stick, 14, and the interior of the socket, 13. The outer sides of said legs are threaded and engage an internal thread on a collar, or nut, 20, swiveled on a reduced portion of the socket, 13, so that by its revolution, the legs and attached parts are moved up and down within the case. It will be understood that the crossbar may be lowered sufficiently so that the filler engaging legs will be projected sufficiently below the bottom of the case as to have room to swing outward far enough to disengage said legs from looking enga ement with the filler or to permit the fifier to be placed in position between them when thus swung apart preliminary to their movement into the filler depressions and locking engagement with the bottom of the band, 11. By the upward movement of the crossbar after the legs and filler are interlocked the upper part of the filler is drawn into the case, and the outer sides of the legs being in snug engagement with the inner sides of the case, the filler and case will be thereby rigidly held and in such a way as to make it impossible for the filler to slip out or even work loose. Yet, the work of removing and replacing the filler can be easily and quickly done. The case, having no openings, except at the bottom, may have a perfectly smooth exterior and present a neat and attractive appearance.

By reason of the inclination of the inner side walls of the case, 12, the legs, 16, are crowded or wedged into place, as they and the filler are drawn upward in the shell.

we claim:

1. An article of the class described, comprising a brush member, a case, and means to detachably connect said case and member, comprising a cross-bar in the case having pivoted latch devices at opposite ends and means to move said cross-bar to project said latch devices from within the case comprising a nut swiveled on the exterior of the case and a threaded shank extending from the cross bar into the nut.

2. An article of the class described, comprising a brush member, a case having a handle-receiving socket, and means to detachably connect said case and brush mem- 5 her comprising a (moss-bar Within the case,

legs pivoted thereto that engage the brush member, a threaded shank extending upward from the cross bar, and a nut swiveied to the exterior of the handle-receiving socket that engages said shank. 10 In testimony whereof We hereunto afiix our signatures.

WVILLIAM E. KILLINGER. FRANCIS S. STEWART. 

